It would be very beneficial to be able to process or classify messages based on the first few characters of the message. I would, for example, hide all messages that begin with 'Liked "' or 'Laughed at "', which would allow Textra to be able to handle the iMessage social media features much better. As it is now, I simply get many duplicate text messages back from iMessage users, which I would prefer to have hidden or blocked.

Even better, would be a modifiable list of patterns to categorize like this, in the case that these introductory phrases are changed over time.

It doesn't seem that the coding for this would be difficult, as it simply needs to check the first few characters of incoming messages and then flag them appropriately.